Legendary Surfers made me aware of the Wax Cylinder Preservation Project, which features many a hawaiian recording from back in the days.
Hawaiian Guitar cylinders
Ukulele cylinders
Xylophone cylinders
Marimba cylinders
Hawaii topic cylinders
while we’re at it:
Japanese cylinders
Guitar cylinders
And they sent this article right along, which describes the dawn of modern surfing in the islands, in the 1910s.
Atomic Cocktail At 40: Fit, Trim & Brimming With Bossness!
Time has certainly crept up on Atomic Cocktail. The popular online radio show celebrates its 40th episode this Wednesday, August 6, with a plethora of pop, soul and rock ’n’ roll. The all-live extravaganza gets under way at 6 p.m. California time at Luxuriamusic. Join resident mixologist Vic Tripp as he counts down the Frostbite 5000 (“the coolest records ever made”), reads your personal dedications and spins more songs about love, dancing, protest and pro wrestling. Re-rebroadcast Saturday, August 9, from 2 to 3 p.m. Forty: It’s the new twenty.
from LuxuriaMusic
Darrell Brogdon writes:
To celebrate the 500th broadcast of The Retro Cocktail Hour, Kansas Public Radio presents Waitiki, the Boston-based tiki-tainment band, in concert at Lawrence’s Liberty Hall.
It’ll be an exotic, once-in-a-lifetime South Pacific sound adventure like no other, featuring classic music by Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Robert Drasnin, Augie Colon, Gene Rains and others, plus original tunes by the band. Besides the unforgettable music, there’ll be a full service Tiki bar and a dance floor, so come early and party all night!
go to the Retro Cocktail Hour website here
Virani from Paris has a nice Flickr photostream with pics form Berlin Wassermusik 08 here.
Here’s a great find, Rock Hudson checking out the linernotes to Dominic Frontiere’s Pagan Festival LP, while resting in Doris Day’s lap on the set of Pillow Talk.
Search for Doris Day and Rock Hudson at www.mptv.net/.
From Luxuriamusic:
Monday, July 21st from 7 – 10 pm PST
Aloha!!! Strike brings yet another spectacular Exotica special to the Kitsch Niche! 3 hours of luscious, undulating, mysterious music from the Pacific rim. They’ll be lots of favorites along with plenty of rarities, too (like unheard Tiki Room music)!Be sure to tune in right at 7:00 as Strike has concocted an Exotic cocktail of an intro unlike anything you have ever heard!
And, Strike will be announcing the winner of the Arthur Lyman 9 cd set courtesy of Collector’s Choice Music. Each CD contains 2 amazing Arthur Lyman albums!
There’s still time to enter to win. All you have to do is donate $5 or more anytime between now and 6:00 pm Monday, July 21st. Go to www.luxuriamusic.com for more details. Aloha!!
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News from the best radio station on the planet:
Pledge Drive News
It took a little bit longer than we wanted, but the pledge drive was a success thanks to all of you that made a donation. If you made a donation and haven’t received your premium yet, hold tight for just a little bit longer, as we have a few premiums that haven’t gone out yet.Though the pledge drive is over, we are still trying to drum up money to pay the bills. So this month we’re holding a raffle to win 9 Arthur Lyman CD’s that were give to us by Collectors Choice Music. Anyone that donates $5 or more between June 23 and July 21 will be immediately entered into the raffle. Everyone that donates $5 or more will receive a Shag designed LuxuriaMusic sticker. For more information on the raffle, go here. Or go to our donations page.
Thank you!!
Programming schedule for Wednesday July 9, 2008.
3-4 PM: Thrifting For Tunes Lee Hazlewood Birthday Special.
4-6 PM: Chuck Kelley Goes Latin
6-7 PM: Atomic Cocktail with Vic Trip.
7-8 PM: Between The Sheets w/ Angel Baby.
8-10 PM: The Ian Whitcomb Show*all time are Pacific Standard Time.
An outsider’s view of the recent Hukilau at the Mai-Kai in Florida available online here.
Henford Lemoore posted his list of drinks mentioned in the article at Tiki Central:
I randomly clicked a track on the Spreeblick blog’s newest music review. And it was Doves Circle the Sky by Bodies of Water. And I must say once in a while there’s new music that I really like for some reason or other. This track was playing during one of these very rare moments. Maybe I should listen there more often, since this was the first time I did that!
